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Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
What is happening in tech outside the AI echo chamber?
Got a bit burned out looking the news and tech podcasts today, except for security news (like from Lapsu$ group) no other news that didn't involve openAI and/or AI in general.
- jeanlucas 2y agoI am aware of the WordPress drama, but it feels more like a business news than tech news.
- shswkna 2y agoThe lack of responses so far on this thread is just sad.
- nitwit005 2y agoPeople tend not to be enthused about a request to essentially write an essay for a stranger.
- normanthreep 2y agowe could copy paste the front page for them
- ActorNightly 2y agoThe issue is that humanity right now is sort of capped on innovation in any area outside AI. There is plenty of room for optimization of stuff. For example, quad rotor drones replaced the necessity to have a helicopter flying overhead for a lot of industries.
- jonplackett 2y agoYou should train an AI to search for tech news that doesn't talk about AI.
- sprkwd 2y agoVersion 8 of Ruby on Rails?
- drewrv 2y agoAR/VR is in a hype superposition, large companies have made large investments yet the tech is arguably in the "trough of disillusionment". Few people think it will break into mainstream use anytime soon. So far, 99% of sales are in the "expensive gaming accessory" category. There is fun and interesting UI and gameplay innovation happening here. The one non-gaming thing everyone seems to want is just a large virtual desktop workspace. Apple has probably come closest here. It sounds like an easy problem but without a high resolution and a wide field of view, it's not a good experience.
- jankyxenon 2y agoIt is an interesting space - where do you think it'll play out from here? Lots of money quietly flowing into the space from big players.
- kolja005 2y agoIs there a lot of innovation happening in this space for military applications? I ask this as someone totally unfamiliar with the technology in general. It seems like it could greatly benefit pilots, people on the battlefield, and anyone else who needs access to some kind of visual information while still having both of their hands.
- SpartanHUD 2y ago[dead]
- kypro 2y agoThere's quite a lot of investment in AR/VR for new educational applications. I think there is some potential there.
- MisterKent 2y agoIn the web framework world, libraries are moving from a react component style of authoring to an older knockout based model. This means, instead of rendering an entire block of HTMl on each render pass, just a minimal subset will be rerendered, as the variable is bound to specific DOM elements. This effort started with Knockout, fell out of favor, and saw a resurgence with the success of SolidJS. Svelte has started moving in this direction. It's my opinion that React's compiler will eventually serve the same purpose to allow their giant user base to get the same benefits. In the web performance space, there's some interesting stuff happening in origin trails around shared dictionary compression. It has been tried and failed before but the latest iteration/spec hopefully improved those shortfalls that made them unusable. Also, ZSTD compression has taken the crown from brotli. Metas new AR glasses seem to be approaching the ideal hardware, IMO it's still searching for its killer app. Microsoft exited the AR space by killing hololens. Startup space is dying right now, with very low VC risk tolerance / interest. Some funds have returned money to investors rather than risk it in investing.
- jeanlucas 2y agoI am aware, at least a bit, of the Hotwire/liveview/Laravel turbo idea of just streaming DOM diffs instead of full pages, and how that is becoming a real force to reckon for SPAs.
- ericb 2y agoAgreed! The pitch is great. Deliver twice as much by writing half as many apps as your competitors to deliver the same features. Let your competitors write a server app and a client app, and keep them in sync, while you. just. don't.
- admissionsguy 2y agoDo you have some examples of complex SPA-like apps written in this tech? I find it hard seeing how you would implement interactive components this way. They recommend Stimulus for extra JS, but then, what is the benefit over SPAs? What I can see is that it could be a nice solution for SPAs that should never have been SPAs in the first place, i.e. mostly static pages with JS navigation used for reasons of fashion.
- elpocko 2y ago[flagged]
- jeanlucas 2y agoBecause I am part of this community and since I am yearning for news outside of the AI echo chamber probably some other users here are also looking for it. Did that help you understand?
- elpocko 2y agoComing to a news aggregator website and asking the users if anyone got news is weird. There's also a lot of posts outside of your imaginary "AI eChO cHaMbEr", which you can see by browsing the site. But how would you make people know that you don't like AI? It's a tough dilemma. Maybe this is a good time to start Luddite News.
- jeanlucas 2y agoYou need to find some peace, elpocko I like AI, I'm not sure where all this luddite project comes from. I want to catch news that are outside of the AI news because it is just overpowering the current news cycle, just that. I myself am trying NotebookLM to play with my own studies and create content. But I wonder what else is perhaps getting less attention because AI is overpowering the news cycle, just like it happens in any tech cycle.
- elpocko 2y agoI see two AI-related posts on the first page of the HN frontpage right now. Out of 30. You are delusional.
- jeanlucas 2y agoI am sorry you're so limited to understand it wasn't like this when I asked several hours ago... I write tech news summary for my own substack and I assure you: the last 4 days were dominated by AI news. But I am 100% sure you're not interested on that. I ask you again, why are you projecting so hard that I hate AI and that I am delusional? You're just attacking someone you literally don't know.
- JohnMakin 2y agoThis is an important question that I hope has a lot of responses, thanks for submitting it. From my cloud/infra/sre perspective, the fork of terraform (openTofu) is extremely exciting to me. I wish I had the time to contribute to it, IAC has been a career-saver for me, and terraform/hashicorp have a lot of warts.
- zendaven 2y agoI read Google News' Technology section and avoid the AI subsection.
- jeanlucas 2y agoI read techmeme.com, but especially this weekend almost all headlines are AI related, probably because of OpenAI's huge round too
- JohnBrookz 2y agoBambu labs got me into 3d printing. It’s the most seamless and simple 3d printer and functions as basically an appliance. Huge leap for 3d printing and I suspect we’re closer than ever to making jt affordable and easy.
- S_Bear 2y agoI replaced my old Elegoo Neptune with a Bambu A1, and what a huge difference! I hated FDM printing for years, but now I use it all the time. I'm upgrading my resin printer next year, and can't wait to see what advances have been made in that realm.
- al_borland 2y agoI keep looking at 3D printers, but then I start looking up if they are safe to use inside and various things like that, and I get scared off. I think I need to give it a few more years before it reaches a maturity level I would actually use.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoReally? It's been nearly 20 years since Reprap, it's hard to imagine it maturing any more. If I get one I'll probably treat it like a belt sander or something, a tool that sits in the garage with plenty of fresh air. Agreed that it's a little concerning knowing some people that sit in a closed space with a dozen of these running (at that point you can smell the hot plastic...) but using common sense with good ventilation goes a long way.
- al_borland 2y agoI currently have a detached garage that wouldn’t be a good place for a printer. If I had an attached garage I could see it being a different situation. As far as development goes, it seems like there has been a lot of advancement in just the past 5 years. Seeing what some of the high end commercial printers are capable of, I think there is still a lot of development left for what home printers can do. The Bambu printers are bound to get some competition. There are also a few competing technologies, and I’m willing to give it some more time to shake out. It still feels very much like a hobbyist tool for people who want to tinker a bit. I want to design and print without a lot of fuss.
- admissionsguy 2y agoPHP 8.4 comes out next month and will bring new functions, including array_find, array_find_key, array_any, and array_all. It will also introduce property hooks.
- admissionsguy 2y agoWhy is this controversial (judging by the fluctuation in net upvotes)? You folks should be more down to earth.
- 6510 2y agoI've largely fixed phpbb 1.4.4 https://phpbb.go-here.nl/index.php https://phpbb.go-here.nl/index.php It's from December 2000[1] (phpBB 2.0.0 was released in April 2002) The idea the only thing that remained of 1.4.4 was a broken screenshot[2] didn't agree with me. [1] - https://www.phpbb.com/about/history/#:~:text=phpBB%201.4.4%20was%20released%20on%20November%206,%202001%20and%20marked https://www.phpbb.com/about/history/#:~:text=phpBB%201.4.4%2... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB#/media/File:PhpBB1-defaultinst.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB#/media/File:PhpBB1-defau...
- mooreds 2y agoWow. Congrats on what was surely a large effort to resurrect an old piece of software.
- 6510 2y agoNo actually, it was very relaxing. I recommend it. Unlike normal coding you don't have to stop to ponder architecture. There is a pseudo code example of everything you need to write right in front of you. Things are so blatantly obviously wrong that they stick out like a sore thumb and the correct way of doing things is for the most part completely obvious. For example: The language files have strings with undefined $variables in them. The variables are later set then it uses eval() on the strings. I just make a function with the same name, replace the undefined variables with function params and return the string. The eval() is replaced with the function call (in all files) then do the same with the next string. The php mysql instructions don't work. The sql is mostly fine. It just needs to be prepared statements. You can just sit down and start writing code (finally!) without pondering what the hell you are doing every other line. Like in the movies.
- fyhdtv467 2y ago[dead]
- d0mine 2y agoPython 3.13 has free-threaded mode support (--disable-gil) https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-free-threaded-cpython https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-fre...
- 7874cole 2y agoYahoo is useful again.
- normanthreep 2y agomy mom says hating on ai is going out of fashion
- binary132 2y agoI think most people are just AI fatigued
- daredoes 2y agoOpen Source Home Automation is on the rise. Check out Home Assistant
- eternityforest 2y agoSodium ion batteries are widely available now. We haven't had a new battery you can actually buy in like, ten years or more. Meshtastic now has way better encryption from what I hear. The CH32V 20 cent riscv chips seem to be Arduino ready and somewhat mainstream.
- tenebrisalietum 2y agoLooks like WDC still has plenty of 6502's in stock: https://wdc65xx.com/where-to-buy https://wdc65xx.com/where-to-buy
- petabyt 2y agoCheck out ladybird browser. I look forward to checking out the monthly updates from Andreas.
- petabyt 2y agoWinamp was recently open sourced.
- mmarian 2y agoI'd love it if there was a site where I could follow developments at the intersection between business and tech that don't mention whatever's being hyped up at that point in time.
- reureu 2y agowe just need to code up some llm-based, blockchain-enabled, genAI apps to automatically remove hyped tech from hn
- mmarian 2y agoYou forgot the secret ingredient - quantum computing. That's what will enable us to run everything efficiently using coal energy that's offset by purchasing carbon credits.
- reureu 2y agoI like the way you think... Wanna join my startup? I'm looking for a technical cofounder. A ninja. A 100x engineer. I can offer 36k/yr and 0.1%. I'm a fast-paced ideas guy, and I need you to be on your implementation game. I'm in touch with some top notch investors-- just waiting for them to respond to my emails, and then we're going to be the next unicorn. This comp package is going to be your ticket to early retirement-- just think, Apple has a 3.5bn market cap, so if you have 0.1% of that you'd be sitting on millions. (I think I've been in the SF tech scene too long-- I've literally had every one of those things pitched to me before)
- JSDevOps 2y agohttps://www.globalgovernmentfintech.com/bank-of-russia-extensive-introduction-digital-ruble-july-2025/ https://www.globalgovernmentfintech.com/bank-of-russia-exten...
- kirubakaran 2y agoHacker News minus AI: https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai